Hi Monks,

I am trying to work on a project in wish I compare to files to determine their difference. However, I am have problem performing this task. What I want to do is to give the name of two text file that I almost identical to my program. Let the program open the two files and compare them to see if they are different. Example; 

     __FILE1__
Life ::= SEQUENCE{
            eat    eating
            drink    drinking
            smoke    smoking
            run CHOICE
                  {
                    fast faster
                    slow slower
                   }
         }

Dave :: = CHOICE {
            club clubing
            bat  batting
        }

      __FILE2__
Life ::= SEQUENCE{
            eat    eating
            drink    drinking
            dummy     smoking
            run CHOICE
                  {
                    fast faster
                    slow slower
                   }
         }
Dave ::= CHOICE {
            club clubing
            bat  batting
        }

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Given to two sample files above, you will observe that "dummy" in file2 is what cause the two files to be different. By using dummy next to smoking, this implies that I know longer want to use "smoke" as a sequence of LIFE. My problem is that, instead of getting ride of smoke completely, I want to concatenate dummy with smoke i.e (dummy smoke smoking) in File2. Note that every definition starts with ::= and ends with a curely brace.

Could any monk kindly help me figure out how to do the files comparison and replacement?

Thanks for your assistance.

Edman

In reply to Comparing two files by gzayzay

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